'They're not forgotten': America's other epidemic killed 41,000 people this year

In a downtown plaza typically filled with the smell of bratwurst and shoppers bustling among Christmas stalls, a different kind of tree illuminates the solemn square this holiday season: a black cloth tree bearing the names of 672 Chicagoans who were fatally shot in 2020.

"That person lived and mattered to our world. So the Tree of Remembrance is letting those families know that their loved one did matter and their pain matters," said Maxwell Emcays, an artist who organized the project in the city's Daley Plaza. "We have...